diverse: [13] Diverse is one of a small family of English words, including also divers, divert, and divorce, which come ultimately from Latin dīvertere. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘aside’ and vertere ‘turn’ (source of English verse, version, vertebra, etc and related to worth), and hence meant literally ‘turn aside, turn out of the way’.
It developed in various metaphorical directions, however. One was ‘turn one’s husband or wife out of the way’ which, via the variant dīvortere, gave English divorce [14]. The central sense of the verb passed more or less unchanged into English, via French divertir, as divert [15], but its past participle diversus illustrates a further metaphorical strand, in which ‘turned aside’ has become ‘separate, different’.
English acquired this via Old French in the 13th century in two distinct forms: masculine divers and feminine diverse. The present-day semantic distinction between the former (‘various, several’) and the latter (‘different’) had established itself by around 1700. => divert, divorce, verse, version, worth
diverse (adj.)
c. 1300, spelling variant of divers (q.v.), perhaps by analogy with converse, traverse, etc. In some cases directly from Latin diversus, and since c. 1700 restricted to the meaning "different in character or quality." Related: Diversely.
实用例句
1. India has always been one of the most religiously diverse countries.
印度一直都是宗教信仰最多元的国家之一。
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2. people from diverse cultures
不同文化背景的人
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3. The Judaeo-Christian tradition is diverse, jumbled, contradictory, at every point inviting inquiry and debate.
犹太-基督教传统呈现多样化，混乱复杂，相互矛盾，在各个方面都会引发质疑和争论。
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4. Davies has managed to pursue his diverse interests in parallel with his fast-moving career.
戴维斯在事业突飞猛进的同时并未放弃自己广泛的兴趣爱好。
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5. The word is now used in a sense diverse from the original meaning.
